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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Storage Gergely Imreh discusses ZFS on a Raspberry Pi. Cal Paterson explains why S3 is not a filesystem.

Linux 112
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Looking Back: 2012 Project Report Card

Scott Lowe

About a year ago, I posted a look at my planned projects for 2012. Become more familiar with Xen (and Open vSwitch and OpenStack). As readers noted in the comments on my original 2012 projects list, my choice of projects wasn’t synergistic, and this hampered efforts. Looking Back: 2012 Project Report Card.

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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. To reduce complexity NVMKV eliminates the need to continually convert native key-value I/O to block I/O used in disk storage. Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage.

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Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects

Scott Lowe

In early January 2012, I posted a list of my 2012 projects. Those projects included learning to script in Perl, learning German, becoming more familiar with Xen/Open vSwitch/OpenStack, and pursuing CCNP. Finally, in early January 2013 I graded myself on my progress on my 2012 goals. Some Projects for 2012.

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others). Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 111
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Technology Short Take 113

Scott Lowe

Via the Kubernetes blog , Box announced it has open sourced a project called kube-iptables-tailer , which turns packet drops from iptables into Kubernetes events that can be logged for easier troubleshooting. This post is from 2012, but is—to me—still as applicable today as ever. Virtualization. Networking.

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A Short Dry Spell

Scott Lowe

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. A Call for Open vSwitch Topics. Looking Back: 2012 Project Report Card. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn. This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org. A Short Dry Spell.